Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

You shouldn't fight change. You should be absolutely open to change.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

Look abroad thro' Nature's range. Nature's mighty law is change.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.